NEW: Shortly before he was nominated by Trump to lead the NIH, Jay Bhattacharya appeared on the right-wing Dad Saves America podcast. During the interview, he suggested vaccines could cause autism and expressed sympathy for alternate vaccine schedules. www.importantcontext.news/p/trump-nih-... - ThreadSky

walkerbragman.bsky.social • 1 day ago

NEW: Shortly before he was nominated by Trump to lead the NIH, Jay Bhattacharya appeared on the right-wing Dad Saves America podcast.

During the interview, he suggested vaccines could cause autism and expressed sympathy for alternate vaccine schedules.

https://www.importantcontext.news/p/trump-nih-director-pick-said-vaccines

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samsonsliteye.bsky.social•7 hours ago

is there even a rough theory on how vaccines could possibly cause autism? all research so far points to autism being a result of early fetal development in the womb. kids dont suddenly get autism, they are either born with it or not. you just cant tell in the first 1-2 years cause theyre... babies

mariallivia.bsky.social•29 minutes ago

My son was 'diagnosed' as Autistic 23 years ago. He was infected by me, contracting Chickenpox -thanks unvaccinated person - in the womb. 20 years later the medical 'profession' are admitting this is 'not exactly a good thing to happen to babies in the womb'. i was of course a hysterical mother.

drawsacat.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fits right in.

halfpint.bsky.social•10 hours ago

THEN WHY SAY IT IF YOU PERSONALLY DON'T BELIEVE IT ASSHOLE

oldsquida.bsky.social•1 day ago

i’m sorry for parents of school aged children who always worry about their kids catching something at school. now is the time of monsters.

hellomiakoda.bsky.social•8 hours ago

https://youtu.be/RfdZTZQvuCo

joannacoleman.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Side comment. Am I the only one who wonders if common synonyms for “vaccine” may contribute to societal fear & distrust ? I am particularly thinking of “shot”. Kind of a scary word, no ?

cphickie.bsky.social•1 day ago

This idiot Bhattacharya is too uninformed to know HPV isn't given to infants. So of course he's a trump pick. Only the worst and dumbest.

talentedripley.bsky.social•9 hours ago

JFC. An 8 yo would be safer, more qualified

so-say.bsky.social•10 hours ago

This is one of those rare cases where truth is self-evident. 124 cases of measles and one death in the most conservative parts of TX, where children are home-schooled and unvaccinated. People make their own choices, like believing conspiracies, and devastate their own family & community

walkerbragman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Bhattacharya’s answer was winding and included a defense of vaccines. He said he personally didn’t believe they were the cause of autism, but he didn’t know so it was important to have that be a hypothesis.

He also suggested he might not give his kid every vaccine on the schedule.

mariallivia.bsky.social•34 minutes ago

These 'men' are literally children in neutered male bodies, who need a woman to give them a good slap around the chops. Do you think the thought 'oh my god people might die' ever ever ever, crosses what passes as a mind? I am sure if it does, they work out who they will blame.

dailygrumbles.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Two (2) vaccinations of measles have a 97% efficacy against infection.
How's that for a defense of vaccines.

walkerbragman.bsky.social•23 hours ago

The NIH is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world.

If he is confirmed, Bhattacharya will have influence over where that funding goes—and what it goes to.

panwegman1004.bsky.social•23 hours ago

And so it goes.

bkelsey91.bsky.social•10 hours ago

He's the same guy that wanted millions of Americans to get sick and die during the covid-19 pandemic?

walkerbragman.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Mass infection for herd immunity guy

bkelsey91.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Right. Mass infection means sick and dead Americans.

What a gross individual

odeecs.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Narrator's voice: "Vaccines do not cause autism."

grunteledboomer.bsky.social•10 hours ago

STILL in Confirmation mode, say WHATEVER you think they WANT to hear.

healingwithspirit.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Keeping the division of forced vaccination of UNsafe vaccines by twisting that w/ denialism of safety of SAFE vaccines is DANGEROUS & only helps this toxic regime & BIG Pharma. STOP THE BULLSHIT.

I am NOT anti-vax but I am ANTI-fast produced vaccines w/botched $$$ studies.

mariallivia.bsky.social•26 minutes ago

From here in the uk, we were darned lucky scientists had tested the new MRNA protocol long enough, that they were able to save billions of lives, from Covid. MAGA likes dead people, and they also hate people who help others. Literally hate having their lives saved. I wish you great suffering.

vflowers84.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Andrew Wakefield is warming up in the bullpen.

61corvair.bsky.social•19 hours ago

These people need to be held accountable for the excessive deaths caused by their misinformation. Those that give them a platform should be held accountable as well.

massdisillusion.bsky.social•1 day ago

fuck that fucking traitor fuck

trust this guy

kyleberkopes.bsky.social•1 day ago

Outstanding book.

massdisillusion.bsky.social•1 day ago

outstanding man. I used to write the WH and suggest Pres. medal of Freedom...

kyleberkopes.bsky.social•1 day ago

This one as well…

massdisillusion.bsky.social•1 day ago

Indeed

uncountablyfinite.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Oh no, vaccines caused me!

ryanmarino.bsky.social•23 hours ago

There are no alternative vaccine schedules, just denial of recommended, evidence-based public health

evensong.bsky.social•23 hours ago

There are also plenty of evidenced-based studies on what strategies are proven effective to change people’s mind. We need to use them. Mockery is the explicit thing you should not do.

Accept epidemiological science AND cognitive psychology science for the win.

walkerbragman.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Yup

skiddius.bsky.social•23 hours ago

I hate that people are giving them the benefit of the doubt about this. "Oh it's reasonable to be worried about how many vaccines kids get so quickly!"

Do they think there's a fucking rate limiter on your immune system? I'm exposed to more pathogens reading dumbshit posts than there are vaccines.

ryanmarino.bsky.social•23 hours ago

How many infections can infants handle

nayandsheebs.bsky.social•22 hours ago

I also (as a parent) have never felt like it's that many? Most of them seem like single shots that are a combo of multiple things. I don't think there's ever been an appointment where my kids have gotten more than 1-3 shots at a time?

epp-97.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Yeah and I feel like parents not getting vaccines are/would be the same ones totally fine with 10-12 of the “normal” amount of sicknesses kids can get a year in daycare/school 🙃 like no one’s protesting the kids getting sick in school, they just plug their supplements

skiddius.bsky.social•2 hours ago

I was sick for literally the first seven months my son was in daycare. That place is nothing more than a glorified fucking incubator.

ryanmarino.bsky.social•21 hours ago

It’s massively smaller amounts of antigen than in older vaccines, and offers better protection against more things

nayandsheebs.bsky.social•3 hours ago

I know you can't get the MMR vaccine while pregnant, but do you know if they'll let you get it immediately postpartum?

nayandsheebs.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Like they make it seem like kids are getting 10 individual shots each visit

skiddius.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Yeah I have a young son and I think the most he ever got was three in one day? Which is hardly anything at all considering what he has shoved in his mouth off the floor from god knows where.

1stladydi.bsky.social•1 hour ago

1) does he have kids and are they vaccinated? 2) I believe it is possible to break up the MMR vaccine into 3 diseases - but if you want to take your kid in for 3 shots instead of one - God Bless you 3) are the 3 separate shots/office visits vs the MMR combo vaccine covered by ins.? Good luck

670rv.bsky.social•21 hours ago

He attended Stanford Medical School - never trained as a MD and never worked in a lab.
He does not know basic immunology - and he got the other misanthrope Sunetra Gupta - to write the way he wanted GBD and she accepted it- paid shill for billionaires.
WH wants to hurt evidence!

salsaycontrol.bsky.social•1 day ago

These people who peddle this nonsense are the first to vaccinate themselves and their children.

adrian7745.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Jay Bhattacharya has THREE kids and posted a photo of them taken around 2014 on his Stanford personal website. His youngest shown in lower middle was infant back then, about the age to get vaccines.
Covered the kids' faces for courtesy.
https://web.archive.org/web/20141122201007/https://web.stanford.edu/~jay/

thinxdinx.bsky.social•5 hours ago

How many times has this been debunked?

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